HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED

HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED, SALTASH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386367
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED
Statutory Address:: HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED, SALTASH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386367
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED
Statutory Address 1:: HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED, SALTASH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HMS DRAKE DRILL SHED, SALTASH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX4491556750

Details

SX45NW 740-1/4/168 01/05/75

PLYMOUTH SALTASH ROAD, Devonport (West side) HMS Drake: Drill Shed

GV II

Formerly known as: (HMS Drake) Indoor Parade Ground Building SALTASH ROAD Devonport. Drill shed. 1879-86, Superintendent Engineer Lt-Col P Smith, RE; doubled in size 1907. Plymouth limestone ashlar with steel frame behind; flat roof hidden by parapet. Large rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; symmetrical 1:9:1:9:1-bay front. Plinth, rusticated pilasters dividing bays, parapet entablature and segmental arches to openings. Wide central entrance bay and narrow blind end bays broken forward and surmounted by pediments. The 9-bay side elevations, also symmetrical, each have 2 large entrances (3rd and 7th bays) with rusticated columns supporting entablature with large segmental pediment and the terminal bays are identical to those of the front. INTERIOR: noted as having iron supports to an iron-trussed roof. HISTORY: sailors lived in hulks until the first barracks were built here at Devonport in the late C19, followed by similar designs at Chatham and Portsmouth; HMS Drake was the only one built in ashlar. Sheds for indoor drill were introduced into barracks during the 1880s, and this is comparable with the very large examples at the other two naval barracks. Part of one of the finest and most complete barracks in England, manifesting the status and importance of the Royal Navy at this time. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655 & 656).

Listing NGR: SX4491556750

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 473752
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655-656

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.